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By RNZ Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock
WELLINGTON (RNZ Mediawatch/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders said last Monday’s bombing in Kabul killed more journalists than any other single attack in...

AUCKLAND (Radio 95bFM/Pacific Media Watch): Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie blasted some of the global coverage of the alleged Chinese military base plans for Vanuatu, describing it as speculative...

JOHANNESBURG (Al Jazeera/Pacific Media Watch): Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela known as "the mother of the nation", has died at the age of 81....

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: (Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies/Pacific Media Watch): News media need to empower people over climate change and to encourage them to take action in their communities and press...

By Colin Peacock
WELLINGTON (RNZ Mediawatch/Pacific Media Watch): The closure of Australian-owned news agency New Zealand Newswire (NZN) means there will no longer be an independent agency gathering national news in...

By Meriba Tulo
PORT MORESBY (EMTV News/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): West Papua’s application to become a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group has gained traction, with MSG leaders...

MANILA (Asia Pacific Report/Al Jazeera English/Pacific Media Watch): As Rappler, a popular Manila news website, battles with authorities, news media in the Philippines are feeling the chill.
Rappler has long been a...

SINGAPORE (Middle East Eye/Pacific Media Watch): Singaporean authorities have banned a film festival this week from screening a documentary that features a Palestinian teen arrested last month after a video of...

NEW YORK (RNZ Pacific/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Australia and other Pacific nations did not join almost 130 countries in an overwhelming vote at the UN demanding the United States drop its recognition...

AUCKLAND (RNZ Noon to Nine/Pacific Media Watch): Media commentator Gavin Ellis has praised some "brilliant pictures" in a new book published late last month to mark 10 years of the Pacific Media Centre.

AUCKLAND (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region are under the spotlight at the Pacific Media Centre’s 10th anniversary event today.
Since 2007, the PMC...

SYDNEY (Asia Pacific Report/JERAA/Pacific Media Watch): The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has expressed its deep concern about reports that Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian-Kurdish...

AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): In a first for a New Zealand filmmaker, Māori filmmaker Renae Maihi has three films circulating the global international film festival circuit.
Maihi’s films Ka Puta, Ko Au and...